There was soon after this a like division among the successful Dragon-fly party, and from a like cause. The people, finding it difficult to draw a dragon-fly, represented it by a cross, or two lines drawn transversely, the longer one representing the body of the fly, and the shorter one its wings. This symbol, which was soon seen on all the utensils of the Ammi, and frequently carved on trees and rocks, especially during the controversy with the Alligator party, came at length to be taken for the dragon-fly, and worshipped in its stead. This abuse was deplored by some of the Ammi, who tried to recall the people to the worship of the dragon-fly itself, and not its symbol. Others, however, had become attached to the cross, and soon there was a violent controversy between the dragon-fly party and the cross party, and the dragon-fly party fought the cross party more than they had both together fought the Alligator party. The cross party were successful, however, and the dragon-fly party were compelled to keep quiet; for by this time they had learned the first rudiments of religious tolerance, and stopped killing and banishing the dissenters, provided only that they would not preach their doctrines in public, or attempt to disturb the established faith. Soon, however, the cross party was rent with dissensions, one class insisting on worshiping the long beam of the cross, and the other the short beam; and there was soon the long-beam cross party and the short-beam cross party in the church, and the long-beam party fought the short-beam party more than the whole cross party had before fought the dragon-fly party. The short-beam party insisted at last on making the short beam as long as the long beam, forming something like a Greek Cross, which finally came to be their symbol, while the long-beam party came in time to omit the short beam altogether and use only a one-beam cross; and they took as their symbol a straight line. The short-beam cross party, however, were successful, and they greatly persecuted the long-beam party, though with less severity than their predecessors had done, because the spirit of religious liberty was always in the ascendant. The short-beam cross party, however, soon broke up into other sects owing to disputes about the nature and form of the short-beam cross, which gave the long-beam cross party (which had at length become the one-beam cross party) an opportunity to urge its claims, and there was a reaction among the short-beam cross party in favor of the long-beam cross party, which gained many converts, and at one time threatened the disruption of the short-beam cross party; and it would doubtless have accomplished this but for a great reformation which now swept over the religious world of the Ammi.